Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long run happier, freer, and more creative when they carry that ideal of a free society out into the world, than if they sit at home to hug it to themselves. ... I suspect that Americans will find initiative and action so much more to their taste than any panic-stricken waiting on what destiny may bring...
...enough for a simple existence. He took the name Count of Pollenza, after a village in northern Italy. He walked and fished. When he read of events in his ex-country, he was heard to murmur, "This will be the death of me." On Christmas Eve, 1947, he was stricken with a lung infection complicated by hardening of the arteries. Four days later, in Alexandria, death, as it must to all kings, came to Victor Emmanuel. Clutching at a handkerchief, dry-eyed Elena sat up all night. In the morning a taxicab arrived with a plain wooden coffin tied...
...usual, at this time of year, our correspondents overseas have been exchanging the season's greetings with us here at home and relating their plans for celebrating Christmas. From his post in poverty-stricken, overcrowded Shanghai, Bureau Chief William Gray cabled...
...relief. The American Red Cross appropriated $100,000 for "immediate stopgap aid," rushed disaster relief workers to the barren Navajo country. A Navajo Trail Relief Caravan Association gathered up food and clothing in California, started seven truckloads on the way to the reservation. Utah citizens helped too. Congress, conscience-stricken after neglectful years, voted a $2,000,000 relief fund for the Navajo and Hopi tribes...
...director of research, "until the legal problems are clarified, there will be great difficulty in carrying out large-scale experimentation." Dr. Suits's suggested remedy: a central organization patterned along the lines of the Atomic Energy Commission. With rainmaking control on a national scale, he thinks, a drought-stricken part of the country could be given real rain relief...